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- GLC#
- GLC06397
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1850/04/16
- Author/Creator
- Tyler, John, 1790-1862
- Title
- to Robert Tyler re: favoring annexation of Texas to expand cotton monopoly
- Place Written
- Sherwood Forest
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket : Height: 25.7 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Annexation of Texas to expand the cotton monopoly, not to divide the nation over slavery. "The monopoly of the cotton plant was the great and important concern... an embargo for a single year would produce in Europe a greater amount of suffering than a fifty years war."
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